Hilal A. Lashuel, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Hilal Lashuel, PhD, is an associate professor of life sciences and the director of the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration at the Brain Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne or EPFL). In addition to his appointment at the EPFL, Dr. Lashuel was a visiting associate professor at the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University from 2012 to 2013 and served as the Executive Director of Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Lashuel was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012 and one of the "100 outstanding persons" (Forum des 100) in the French-speaking part of Switzerland by the Swiss business magazine L'Hebdo in 2009.